From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 7 04:16:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22534 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 04:16:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-22.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA22528; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 04:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.054 #1) id 0zmza6-0000ld-00; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:16:04 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA00620; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:15:24 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07143; Mon, 7 Dec 98 12:15:23 GMT Message-Id: <366BC6A4.2A18F1E3@uk.radan.com> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 12:14:28 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Seal Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing color depth in X References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick Seal wrote: > > Not for me they dont! Ctrl-Alt-& does nothing while Ctrl-Alt-+ cycles > through the resolutions only. > Ahh, I wasn't sure, it was just a suggestion. I only use 32bpp and have #'d out the lower colour depths in XF86Config. BTW, I didn't mean Ctrl-Alt-&. I should have written Ctrl-Alt-[+-] (``-'' and ``+'' just cycle in opposite directions) > Thanks, > > _____________________________ > Patrick Seal > > > Hyperhost > hosting and Design > http://www.hyperhost.net > > On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > > > > > >>>>> Patrick Seal writes: > > > > > > > Then whats the point of all the entries in the XF86Config file? > > > > > > They are used only when the X server starts. > > > > > > > What about Ctrl-Alt - & Ctrl-Alt +?. Don't they cycle through _all_ > > the entries in XF86Config, or just through all the resolutions for the > > current colour depth? > > > > > > > > And is their a way to change the color depth at startup > > > > via command line? > > > > > > Yes. > > > > > > 1 If you start X11 with the startx command, this is explained in > > > the man page (try 'man startx'): > > > > > > In order to start the server in 16bpp use > > > startx -- -bpp 16 > > > > > > 2 if you use xdm, you can have several config files and use the -config > > > option. > > > > > > Jean-Marc > > > > > > -- > > > Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It > > was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. > > > > Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. > > Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions > > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message